Alta Light
Big Rock Brewery
- From:
- Big Rock Brewery
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Light Lager
- ABV:
- 4%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 2.76 | pDev: 14.86%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Sep 09, 2011
- Added:
- Nov 26, 2004
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by bylerteck from Canada (ON)
3.16/5 rDev +14.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
3.16/5 rDev +14.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
Extra from biboergosum. Thanks?
A - Pours a cider/apple juice colour. Good carbonation. Bright. One finger soapy white head. Very little lacing and a half finger of retention.
S - Corn, sugar, sweet malt, slightly floral.
T - Slightly better with less corn. Some peppery hops and sweet malt. Actually not bad. Kinda like ginger ale? I don't mind it at all.
M - Ligh to medium body with good carbonation and a sweet, crisp, clean finish.
O/D - Meh. For a light lager it's not too shabby. To style this is probably fairly well put together, otherwise it's nothing I would pick up again. Worth a try if you want a quality light lager I guess.
Sep 09, 2011A - Pours a cider/apple juice colour. Good carbonation. Bright. One finger soapy white head. Very little lacing and a half finger of retention.
S - Corn, sugar, sweet malt, slightly floral.
T - Slightly better with less corn. Some peppery hops and sweet malt. Actually not bad. Kinda like ginger ale? I don't mind it at all.
M - Ligh to medium body with good carbonation and a sweet, crisp, clean finish.
O/D - Meh. For a light lager it's not too shabby. To style this is probably fairly well put together, otherwise it's nothing I would pick up again. Worth a try if you want a quality light lager I guess.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
2.93/5 rDev +6.2%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
2.93/5 rDev +6.2%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
355ml can. At least Big Rock claims this one as their own on the label.
This beer pours a clear, pale golden straw colour, with two fingers of puffy, thinly foamy, and mostly fizzy off-white head, which sinks away when I briefly turn my back on it, leaving some sudsy arches of soap scum lace around the glass.
It smells of mild corn/rice bready graininess, stale at that, sweet fusel alcohol (go figure), and weedy, dead grass hops. The taste is more light bready grain, cornmeal, some over-aged lemon astringency, and weak, dull earthy and old leafy hops.
The carbonation is moderate, just a gentle fizziness throughout, the body actually fairly decently weighted for a light lager, not too thin, and generally hitting that marketing target for 'smoothness'. It finishes off-dry, but mostly with a growing indistinct tartness, which, like everything else here, is in little danger of becoming anything more than middling.
Well, Alta Light is comparable to most of Big Rock's other low-aiming efforts, and it still outperforms its BMC weight class opponents, if not by all that much. Hey, for 8 bucks a sixer, this beats the $10+ you gotta drop for Molson or the Silver Bullet around here. Just sayin', if this is your thing, you could do much worse.
Jun 15, 2011This beer pours a clear, pale golden straw colour, with two fingers of puffy, thinly foamy, and mostly fizzy off-white head, which sinks away when I briefly turn my back on it, leaving some sudsy arches of soap scum lace around the glass.
It smells of mild corn/rice bready graininess, stale at that, sweet fusel alcohol (go figure), and weedy, dead grass hops. The taste is more light bready grain, cornmeal, some over-aged lemon astringency, and weak, dull earthy and old leafy hops.
The carbonation is moderate, just a gentle fizziness throughout, the body actually fairly decently weighted for a light lager, not too thin, and generally hitting that marketing target for 'smoothness'. It finishes off-dry, but mostly with a growing indistinct tartness, which, like everything else here, is in little danger of becoming anything more than middling.
Well, Alta Light is comparable to most of Big Rock's other low-aiming efforts, and it still outperforms its BMC weight class opponents, if not by all that much. Hey, for 8 bucks a sixer, this beats the $10+ you gotta drop for Molson or the Silver Bullet around here. Just sayin', if this is your thing, you could do much worse.
Reviewed by BigBry from Canada (AB)
2.2/5 rDev -20.3%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
2.2/5 rDev -20.3%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
This is the corresponding light version of Big Rock's Alberta Genuine Draft (their attempt at a lower cost version beer to compete with the cheaper national brands). This is a very typical light beer. Pale yellow color, not much head, not much taste. Hard to be dissapointed, because you get what you would expect from a lower cost, light beer. Big Rock does Coors Light. Only available in cans.
June 2015
Now available in a new look can. Retro style tan colored label with blue lettering - the corresponding style to Alberta Genuine Draft.
Nov 26, 2004June 2015
Now available in a new look can. Retro style tan colored label with blue lettering - the corresponding style to Alberta Genuine Draft.
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